Over the past four decades, Astraea has devoted over $31,000,000 to grassroots activists in nearly half the world. From Missoula, Montana to Cape Town, South Africa, we’ve supported countless struggles and successes in LGBTQI human rights. To learn more about the passionate activists behind these movements for gender, racial, economic, and social justice, take our interactive globe for a spin!

THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.

A donation to Astraea reaches across the globe, fueling campaigns for constitutional protections, combating forced “rehabilitation” clinics for lesbians, and fighting for the right for self-determination for trans people. Very few foundations are supporting the crucial work of LGBTI activists in the U.S. and around the globe—in fact, 0.2% of all foundation dollars nationally support these issues.

On Recent DACA News

Rescinding DACA is part of a larger strategy to criminalize immigrant communities.

Queer, trans and gender nonconforming migrants are on the frontlines of resistance against the multiple forms of violence aimed at LGBTQ and people of color communities in the United States. Rescinding DACA is part of a larger strategy to criminalize immigrant communities. Since last fall, the human rights and bodily autonomy of LGBTQ migrants, including trans migrants and other LGBTQ communities vulnerable to detention and the potentially life-threatening consequences of deportation, have come under increasing attack. LGBTQ people are deeply impacted by the DACA decision, which affects 75,000 LGBTQ youth.

Astraea understands that the issues faced by LGBTQ people are not exclusively based on misogyny, homophobia or transphobia – our communities face cumulative forms of discrimination based on multiple identities and systemic inequalities. We strengthen organizations and movements that acknowledge and fight these multiple barriers to self-determination. LGBTQ migrants live and work at the intersections of racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and classism. By funding grassroots organizations by and for LGBTQ migrants and migrant justice organizations with strong LGBTQ leadership, Astraea aims to build a strong base of LGBTQ migrant leaders and allies to hold back immigration enforcement and raise visibility around how LGBTQ migrants are affected by unjust immigration policies.

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THE ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE is the only philanthropic organization working exclusively to advance LGBTQI human rights around the globe. We support brilliant and brave grantee partners in the U.S and internationally who challenge oppression and seed change. We work for racial, economic, social, and gender justice, because we all deserve to live our lives freely, without fear, and with dignity.